NPO Doc: Home Game
Documentary maker Lidija Zelovic explores what “home” means after her flight from Sarajevo in 1993. Using personal and contemporary images, she draws parallels between the Netherlands and her native Yugoslavia, creating a confrontational mirror of the current Dutch political climate. On Thursday 23 October, Home Game (MtMF25) will be broadcast on NPO2 at 10:25 p.m. and can be viewed on NPO Start and NPOdoc.nl.
In the documentary Home Game, Lidija Zelovic portrays her displaced family in the Netherlands since 1993, when they had to flee their war-torn home in Sarajevo.
Zelovic’s film essay exposes the duality with which all migrants live: what is “home”? In doing so, the filmmaker draws attention to disruptive social and political developments in the Netherlands, which she recognises from her fallen homeland of Yugoslavia.
Drawing on her personal archive, Zelovic alternates scenes at home – discussions about politics and football on Sundays with her parents and brother, her son growing up, holidays ‘at home’ in Bosnia – with political events in the Netherlands, such as political assassinations, scandals surrounding government discrimination, growing social polarisation, increasing unrest in society and the acceptance of radical right-wing politics at the centre of power.